Basically your router shouldn't still be using WEP, as Bryan said, it's broken. But I know some of gaming consoles don't support anything better. A laptop should though. For those older consoles you may want to consider buying a newer wireless router that has a 'guest mode'. You can use this 'guest mode' to connect your console to the internet without it having access to your internal LAN. So it isn't so important what encryption you use on that side of things.

+1 to Bryan. The whole point of wireless security is that some random nearby cannot simply get on and use your wireless without you knowing and either using up your bandwidth or doing something illegal!

WEP can be cracked in hours if someone wanted to. WPA2 is the most secure, and really encryption doesn't affect game play in any way you'd notice.

So what you're actually asking is how to illegally break into the neighbors wifi, sorry, I'm not going to help you do that. Do you know your neighbor well enough to go ask him if he would mind your brother, just occasionally, using their wifi? And he may give you the key.

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